KUCHING: The new home for the Sri Satok Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Centre � Pusat Kebajikan Datuk Amar Hajah Juma’ani � was officially declared open yesterday.

Permodalan Satok Berhad executive director Tan Sri Datuk Amar Abdul Aziz Dato Husain said the centre costing RM1 million was built on 0.35 acre of land belonging to the company.

It is a two-storey building providing welfare support services for a CBR centre and an Old Folks Activity Centre (Pawe), he said.

The welfare centre provides free advice, family guidance and social welfare to the people living in the area. It opens from Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. There are 60 people registered with Sri Satok CBR Centre and for Pawe, we are expecting around 62 registrants, he said.

He said the ground floor has a kitchen, dining area, sensory room, physiotherapy room, hydrotherapy pool, craft shop and three classrooms.

The upper floor has the general office, meeting room, medical, counselling, IT and lecture room, committee room, balcony and storeroom, he said.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the centre was held on Nov 13 last year and the building was completed on Feb 4.

Meanwhile, Petra Jaya Welfare Association deputy chairman Dr Ismail Drahman said the centre was built to replace the Sri Satok CBR Centre, which was a rented premises.

Since it was formed in 2015, the Sri Satok CBR Centre has 60 trainees who excel in various fields like arts and sports.

Some of our trainees were also given the opportunity to work at Mydin Hypermart after attending training at Sri Satok, meaning that they have their own hidden talents, just that they need to be unearthed.

It is named after Abang Johari’s wife, Datin Patinggi Datuk Amar Juma’ani Tuanku Bujang, who is the centre’s chairperson and Sri Satok CBR Centre’s advisor and patron.

Meanwhile, when asked to comment on Barisan Nasional (BN)’s win in the Semenyih by-election, Abang Johari, who is also Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) chairman, refused to comment, saying that it was Peninsular Malaysia politics and had nothing to do with Sarawak.

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